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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
17. Their own Laws argue not the imperfection of Gods Laws, nor stand in co-ordination with them as a supplement, but are merely like the by-Laws, or Local Laws of Corporations, subordinate to the Universal Laws of the King, and made only by a power given by him: Kings themselves being much more under God, than Justices are under them.
17. Their own Laws argue not the imperfection of Gods Laws, nor stand in co-ordination with them as a supplement, but are meerly like the by-Laws, or Local Laws of Corporations, subordinate to the Universal Laws of the King, and made only by a power given by him: Kings themselves being much more under God, than Justices are under them.
18. The Sovereign Power is unlimited and absolute, to as any limitation of any superior humane Power (else it were not Sovereign).
18. The Soveraign Power is unlimited and absolute, to as any limitation of any superiour humane Power (else it were not Soveraign).
19. But besides that it is ever limited by God, it may be also limited by Contract with the people, called by some Fundamental or Constitutive Laws, when a people that have a right to their lives, limbs, liberties and estates, do in the constitution of the Common-wealth, secure these from the absolute will of the Sovereign▪ and reserve cases of innocency in which they shall not be taken away: which are called the peoples Liberties.
19. But besides that it is ever limited by God, it may be also limited by Contract with the people, called by some Fundamental or Constitutive Laws, when a people that have a right to their lives, limbs, liberties and estates, do in the constitution of the Common-wealth, secure these from the absolute will of the Soveraign and reserve cases of innocency in which they shall not be taken away: which are called the peoples Liberties.